Easy Ways to Lower Your Taxes: Simple Strategies Every Taxpayer Should Know.

• Author: Fink, Philip R.
• Position: Brief article - Book review

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Easy Ways to Lower Your Taxes: Simple Strategies Every Taxpayer Should Know, by Sandra Block and Stephen Fishman (Nolo, 2008), explores legitimate tactics that can lower a typical individual's tax bill. The book includes chapters on tax basics and tax planning, tax credits, tax-free income, deferring income, using deductions to reduce taxable income, reducing taxes through investing, shifting income within the household, and choosing the correct filing status and tax...